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Dennis Ritchie RIP
#266276 - 10/13/11 09:47 PM
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Re: Dennis Ritchie RIP
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#266284 - 10/13/11 10:30 PM
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> Without Mr. Ritchie's contribution there would be no Mame.
Why not? It would just be written in another language.
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Re: Dennis Ritchie RIP
[Re: redk9258]
#266292 - 10/13/11 11:11 PM
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> > Without Mr. Ritchie's contribution there would be no Mame.
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> Why not? It would just be written in another language.
Mame in assembler....*shudder*
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Re: Dennis Ritchie RIP
[Re: igamabob]
#266300 - 10/14/11 01:54 AM
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> > > Without Mr. Ritchie's contribution there would be no Mame.
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> > Why not? It would just be written in another language.
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> Mame in assembler....*shudder*
BCPL, APL and Pascal all predate C. It wasn't the first high-level structured language.
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Re: Dennis Ritchie RIP
[Re: Vas Crabb]
#266302 - 10/14/11 02:03 AM
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> > > > Without Mr. Ritchie's contribution there would be no Mame.
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> > > Why not? It would just be written in another language.
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> > Mame in assembler....*shudder*
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> BCPL, APL and Pascal all predate C. It wasn't the first high-level structured
> language.
I'm pretty sure the GNU project wouldn't have taken off if Pascal was the major language choice when RMS got butthurt about a printer in 1982. C and UNIX are basically prerequisites for the existence of F/OSS, including hobbyist emulators.
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